SSD issue help

DeathRuler23 · Nov 3, 2016

So a couple of days ago I was getting a screen that showed american megatrends saying my hard drive failed and I've been trying to use a USB drive to wipe the SSD but everytime it tells me to restart which I do and then I'm back to square one trying to manually boot the computer using the USB flash drive.

RealBeast · Nov 3, 2016

Make a Linux Live USB stick using THIS free tool (I generally use Mint 17 32 bit). It will automatically make a bootable OS that will allow you to start your computer without installing anything on it and once you do then you can mount your SSD by clicking on it. Once mounted you can use the partition tool to check and re-create the partition on the SSD.

DeathRuler23 · Nov 3, 2016

Well I don't know how to go through Linux but now the issue is that whenever I try to install Windows on the computer it says. Windows cannot be installed to the disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks. Which I've tried deleting and remaking the boot key which is supposed to help but it hasnt

RealBeast · Nov 4, 2016

If you can boot from your installer USB you can make the drive GPT and then should be able to install. Simply use the choice to open the command prompt. Then use diskpart to clean and change the drive.

diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is the target SSD from the list command)
clean
convert gpt
exit

The SSD will then be an unpartitioned gpt disk and you should be able to install Windows 10 onto the drive.

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